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Today, the one-size-fits-all cancer treatment approach has largely fallen out of favor. Instead, cancer treatment is often a matter of weighing options and determining what makes sense for each patient. In many cases, in fact, less is now more when it comes to cancer treatment.
Motivated by the potential of immunotherapy, doctors and researchers are exploring new ways to better forecast when they may be a viable treatment for more cancers and show better outcomes in a larger percentage of patients.
Radiology and radiation therapy are critical components to many cancer diagnoses and treatments, but because of their similar names, patients often get confused by what exactly each does for them.
Elderly patients, 65 and older, with weakened immune systems may not have the robust response to immunotherapy some younger patients experience.
In a growing number of cases, the era of precision medicine has flipped the perceptions about rare and common cancers upside down.
There have been decades of research into whether oxygen is good for cancer or bad for it. Some have used the unknowns to fuel claims that hyperbaric oxygen therapy can cure cancer.
New studies are finding a surprising potential ally in the fight against cancer: certain deadly viruses.
It may seem like a simple case of cause and effect when people who live in the same area, work at the same job site, or play on the same sports team develop cancer, especially if it’s the same type of cancer. But very few of the more than 1,000 suspected cancer clusters reported to state and federal health officials each year are confirmed to be true cancer clusters.
For years, scientists have been studying the role telomeres play in measuring our biological age and how they influence the development of disease, including cancer.
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